Wondering if anyone has published recently in Radiotherapy and Oncology. I have 2 manuscripts submitted in November 2011 that are still undergoing review. Is it just me or is ridiculous that I'm still waiting now >4 months to hear back...
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I've got you beat on time at the Green Journal without review. I'll never submit there again after my experience.
Wow, this is ridiculous. How do they ever get anyone to submit there a second time?? Wish I knew how painful this would be ahead of time. I can't imagine waiting 6 months and getting the manuscript rejected... Thanks for the info
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I submitted an article for review in November as well and after 4 emails, they told me recently that its undergoing "final editorial review" whatever that means. The worse part I feel like is their unwillingness to give an actual timetable. If they said at the outset that it would take 6 month, at least I would have adjusted my expectations. Instead every time I email them, I am told that its going to be "a few more weeks" followed by silence. If they don't give us an answer soon, we may re-submit elsewhere....
I am in the same boat. I am wondering if it's worth submitting elsewhere but at the same time it's been so long that I have invested in R&O already that it would be a shame to withdraw now. Either way, I will never submit there again. What a nightmare.
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I eventually just pulled my paper out...never actually got a review. Don't hesitate to do so...
Hey mikedc813,
If something can be learned from my experience (as well as I can remember it, at least. This was all with the help of my boss; I was a 21 year-old rookie): submitted to Green Journal in Jan 2010. Got a request for more info at the end of the Spring 2010. Submitted the info 1 month after that, and the paper was published Aug 2011. I thought that my experience was exceptionally long (blamed it on the fact that we were refuting a paper the Green Journal had recently published), but perhaps it was the norm. It's a shame, considering that many people view it as the 2nd best RadOnc Journal. For reference: my team's Red Journal paper took about 8 months from start to finish (it needed only very minor revising). 3rd paper in Physics in Medicine and Biology took a year from start to finish, and 4th in TCRT took a year and a half. Hope that helps. Good luck!
If something can be learned from my experience (as well as I can remember it, at least. This was all with the help of my boss; I was a 21 year-old rookie): submitted to Green Journal in Jan 2010. Got a request for more info at the end of the Spring 2010. Submitted the info 1 month after that, and the paper was published Aug 2011. I thought that my experience was exceptionally long (blamed it on the fact that we were refuting a paper the Green Journal had recently published), but perhaps it was the norm. It's a shame, considering that many people view it as the 2nd best RadOnc Journal. For reference: my team's Red Journal paper took about 8 months from start to finish (it needed only very minor revising). 3rd paper in Physics in Medicine and Biology took a year from start to finish, and 4th in TCRT took a year and a half. Hope that helps. Good luck!
